Community Water System · PWSID IN5245029

Indiana American Water - Lowell

Serves 11,908 peopleGroundwater Under InfluenceOwner: Local GovernmentGreenwood, Indiana

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On record since 2019: 6 violations. 4 over the limit · 2 treatment lapses. Most recent began 2024-09-01.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

4Over the limit

2Treatment lapse

0Missed or late test

0Notice or report

More violations on record than 58% of active water systems in Indiana. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.

67% over the limit · 433% treatment lapse · 2

Across Indiana, 78% of violations are missed or late tests and 3% are water over a limit.

How far over the limit

Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

1 ppb

0.8 ppb

0 ppb

Every violation on record

2024-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Single Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)measured 1.50 NTUBack in compliance
2022-12-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
2020-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 80.60 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
2019-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 82.60 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
2019-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 88.20 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
2019-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 84.50 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance

System details

Population served	11,908
Service connections	4,793
Water source	Groundwater Under Influence
System type	Community Water System
Owner	Local Government
Status	Active
City	Greenwood
EPA ZIP on file	46143

Areas served

Lowell, Lake County

Reading this record

Indiana American Water - Lowell is a community water system that draws from groundwater under influence and serves about 11,908 people in Greenwood, Indiana. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.